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...home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's VHS best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect," says Walden. "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." By embodying the grace and strength of their system, Yee and Walden are its most charismatic proselytizers--new luminaries in the yoga firmament...
...everyone looooves a peacekeeper. Need to expel some East Timorese? Get a solid start, then call the peacekeepers in, with red carpet to boot! Need to buff your Georgian signature on the Yalta Declaration of Liberated Europe? Call in the international observers! What are guns, we good liberal democrats ask, next to a balmy blue? Or physical power, next to the moral power of that noblest of all goddesses, the international community...
...skeptical journalists found six pioneers, in therapies ranging from guided imagery to visceral manipulation, who really seem to be on to something. "I was surprised," says senior writer Mike Lemonick, "at how long a record of success some of them have." Our truest believer is senior writer and health buff John Greenwald, who has tried many of the therapies and whose appearance routinely fools people into thinking he is 10 years younger than his actual age. "This was particularly meaningful to me," says John, who wrote two pieces in the package. "In fact, I celebrated the completion of this project...
...home yoga, the video-store racks groan with hot, moving tapes. The Living Yoga series of instructional videos taught by Yee and Patricia Walden occupies five of the top eight slots on Amazon's vhs best-seller list. "Vogue and Self are putting out the message of yoginis as buff and perfect," says Walden. "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." By embodying the grace and strength of their system, Yee and Walden are its most charismatic proselytizers - new luminaries in the yoga firmament...
Timothy C. Harte `90-marathon runner, movie buff, and Slavics scholar-has been an active figure in Kirkland House for four years as an intramural teammate and director of the Kirkland movie society. Next year, Harte will take on new responsibilities as Kirkland House's Allston Burr Senior Tutor...